Quotes About Morality

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

there is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.

Part of that power which would Do evil constantly and constantly does good.

Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.

Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.